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Thursday, 8 January 2015

Paris shooting: Who profits from killing Charlie?

Police and firefighters gather in front of the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, after armed gunmen stormed the building.

Putin
did it. Sorry, he didn't. In the end, it was not Russia "aggression"
that attacked the heart of Europe. It was a pro-style jihadi commando.
Cui bono?

Careful planning and preparation; Kalashnikovs; rocket-propelled grenade
launcher; balaclavas; sand-colored ammunition vest stuffed with spare
magazines; army boots; piece of cake escape in a black Citroen. And the
icing on the lethal cake; faultless Paris-based logistical support to
pull that off. A former top French military commander, Frederic Gallois, has stressed the perfect application of "urban guerrilla technique" (where are those notorious Western counter-terrorism "experts" when one needs them?)

They might have spoken perfect French; others said it was broken

French. Anyway, what matters is that they uttered the magic word; "We're
al-Qaeda." Better yet; they told a man in the street, "Tell the media
that this is al-Qaeda in Yemen", which means, in American terror
terminology, al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP), which had Charlie
Hebdo's editor/cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier ("Charb") on a hit list
duly promoted by AQAP's glossy magazine Inspire. Accusation: "Insulting
the Prophet Mohammed."

And just to make sure everyone had the perpetrators implanted on
their brain, the killers also said, "Allahu Akbar"; "We have killed
Charlie Hebdo"; and "We have avenged the Prophet."

Case closed? Well, it took only a few hours for French police to
identify the (usual?) suspects; French-Algerian brothers Said and Cherif
Kouachi. The third man - the driver of the black Citroen, 18-year-old
Hamyd Mourad - then turned himself in with an ironclad alibi. So the
third man remains a cipher.

They all wore balaclavas. The Kouachi brothers have not been captured.
But the police seem to know very well who they are. Because they
found an abandoned ID in the black Citroen (oh, the troubles of being a
command in a rush ...) How come they didn't know anything before the
carnage?

Right on cue, Cherif Kouachi's bio was splattered all over. He was on a global watch list. Along
with six others, he was sentenced in May 2008 to 3 years in prison for
"terrorism"; in fact unloading a dozen young Frenchmen via madrassas in
Egypt and Syria to none other than Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the
killed-by-an-American-missile former head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the
spiritual father of Daesh/ISIS/ISIL.

Also right on clue, a full narrative was ready for mass consumption. The key point; French police privileges the hypothesis of "Islamic terrorism".
According to their "experts", this could be an attack "ordered from
abroad and executed by jihadis coming back from Syria that have escaped
us", or it could be "suburban idiots that radicalized themselves and
concocted this military attack in the name of al-Qaeda."

Scrap option two, please; this was a pro job. And staying with option
one, this points right at - what else - blowback. Yes, they could be
Daesh/ISIS/ISIL mercenaries trained by NATO (crucially, France included)
in Turkey and/or Jordan. But it might get even false-flag nastier. They could also be former or current French special forces.

Blast Islam, will travel

Predictably, Islamofascism peddlers are already having a field
day/week/month/year. For simpletons/trolls/hordes exhibiting an IQ
worthy of sub-zoology, when in doubt, demonize Islam. It's so
convenient to forget that untold millions from Pakistan's tribal areas
to street markets across Iraq continue to feel pain devastating their
hearts and lives as they are expendable victims of the jihadi mindset -
or "Kalashnikov culture", as it is known in Pakistan - profiting the
"West", directly or indirectly, for decades now. Think ritual droning of
Pakistani, Yemeni, Syrian, Iraqi or Libyan civilians. Think Sadr City witnessing carnages over 10 times worse than Paris.

What French President Francois Hollande defined as "an act of
exceptional barbarism" - and it is - does not apply when the "West",
France in the front line, from King Sarko to General Hollande himself,
weaponizes, trains and remote-controls assorted mercenaries/beheaders
from Libya to Syria. Oh yeah; killing civilians in Tripoli or Aleppo is
perfectly all right. But don't do that in Paris.

So this, in the heart of Europe, is what blowback feels like. This is
what people feel in the Waziristans when a wedding party is incinerated
by a Hellfire missile. In parallel, it's absolutely impossible that the
oh so sophisticated Western intel network had not seen blowback coming -
and was impotent to prevent it (how come the scapegoats du jour, the
Kouachi brothers, were not in the gallows?)

Of course the ultra-elaborate Western counter-terrorism expert
network - so proficient at strip-teasing us all at every airport - saw
it coming; but in shadow warland, portmanteau "al-Qaeda" and its myriad
declinations, including "renegade" Daesh/ISIS/ISIL, are used as much as a
mercenary army as a convenient domestic threat "against our freedoms".

Who profits?

US Think Tankland, also predictably, is busy spinning the drama of an
"intra-Muslim" split which provides jihadis a lot of geopolitical space
to exploit - all this sucking the Western world into a Muslim civil war.
This is absolutely ridiculous. The Empire of Chaos, already
during the 70s, was busy cultivating jihadi/Kalashnikov culture to fight
anything from the USSR to nationalist movements all across the Global
South. Divide and Rule has always been used to fan the flames
"intra-Islam", from the Clinton administration getting cozy with the
Taliban to the Cheney regime - helped by Persian Gulf vassals -
advancing the sectarian Sunni/Shi'ite schism.

Cui bono, then, with killing Charlie? Only those whose agenda is to demonize Islam.
Not even a bunch of brainwashed fanatics would pull off the Charlie
carnage to show people who accuse them of being barbarians that they
are, in fact, barbarians. French intel at least has concluded that this
is no underwear bomber stunt. This is a pro job. That happens to
take place just a few days after France recognizes Palestinian
statehood. And just a few days after General Hollande demanded the
lifting of sanctions against the Russian "threat".

The Masters of the Universe who pull the real levers of the Empire of
Chaos are freaking out with the systemic chaos in the racket they so far
had the illusion of controlling. Make no mistake - the Empire
of Chaos will do what it can to exploit the post-Charlie environment -
be it blowback or false flag. The Obama administration is already mobilizing the UN Security
Council. The FBI is "helping" with the French investigation. And as an
Italian analyst memorably put it,
jihadis don't attack a vulture hedge fund; they attack a satirical rag.
This is not religion; this is hardcore geopolitics. Reminds me of David
Bowie: "This is not rock'n roll. This is suicide."

The Obama administration is already mobilized to offer
"protection" - Mob-style - to a Western Europe that is just, only just,
starting to be diffident of the pre-fabricated Russian "threat". And
just as it happens, when the Empire of Chaos mostly needs it, evil
"terra" once again rears its ugly head.

And yes, I am Charlie. Not only because they made us laugh; but because they were sacrificial lambs in a much nastier, gruesome, never-ending shadowplay.

Information Clearing House

Alison Weir / If Americans Knew...

The Corbett Report

Centre for Research on Globalisation

Signs of the Times

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